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S500 - pre production car
REDRC.net got the first shots of the new S500 4WD buggy from Serpent in their comprehensive report on the Nuremberg ToyFair 2008.
 The new car is based on the original Durango concept - but reworked from the ground up by Gerd and the designers at Serpent. The S500 features a flat pressed main chassis with machined screwed-on sides, which form a rather unique alloy 'tub' - providing both strength and weather sealing, negating the need for an undertray or top deck. The rear of the chassis appears to have a plastic 'skid plate' to prevent the chassis from wearing on hard surfaces. As we said last week - the new car widens toward the front to accomodate 'regular' sized electrics, and the servo sits under the steering. Last edited by jimmy; 08-02-2008 at 10:54 AM. 
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now that I LIKE!!! that is just awesome lateral thinking!!
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Hope you can get trakpowers new saddle pack Lipo's in there! If mr christopher had anything to do with it they will know doubt!
Looks intresting !
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That looks tidy!
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looks pretty good, seems to have put on a big of weight since the worlds though
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and enclosed spur gear wow
loving it looks quality
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very nice!!!
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I can tell you from experience, removing the slipper to change the cells gets tedious.....  And imagine if it popped open over the big jump at Batley!
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It seems like Ali chassis's are this years 'new black'
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Well that looks nice doesn't it!!! You just can't knock Serpent for build / manufacturing quality as they are amongst the best in this business!!
The weight distribution will be interesting to see. Servo and cells on the centre line ... great ........... going to have to be a really FAT speedo and Rx to balance the motor to get the front side to side distribution on the money ....... or a lot of lead!!! One of the 4wd's I have sitting on my desk in front of me has to use only 10g extra weight to get the side-side weight distribution spot on both front and rear and the other needed less than that!!!! Before anybody pipes up my stock ZX5-SP is under the desk and the BJ4WE is in a different room. Don't want to sound too negative and please read this how it is meant ...... just wondering about relative corner weights of this car when compared against some of the others.
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last thing i heard they were using alloy as the chassis
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normally in May
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Are brushless motors lighter than brushed? If a brushless motor is a bit lighter, then that combined with the bigger, heavier brushless esc might re-balnce the car somewhat.
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